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• And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?

  Mervyn Peake

  Fall, Autumn, Wind

  Mervyn Peake (1995). “The Gormenghast Novels”, Overlook Books

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• When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the vagaries of his left eye (which was for ever trying to dash up and down the vertical surface of the door), he was able by dint of concentration to observe, within three inches of his keyholed eye, an eye which was not his, being not only of a different colour to his own iron marble, but being, which is more convincing, on the other side of the door.

  Mervyn Peake

  Eye, Doors, Iron

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• Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.

  Mervyn Peake

  Age, Three, World

  Mervyn Peake (1995). “The Gormenghast Novels”, Overlook Books

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• I am too rich already, for my eyes
  Mint gold, while my heart cries.

  Mervyn Peake

  Eye, Gold, Rich

  "Peake's progress: selected writings and drawings of Mervyn Peake".

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• I am clever enough to know that I am clever.

  Mervyn Peake

  Clever, Enough, Knows

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• Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend in a pair of tights like a bunch of lights?

  Mervyn Peake

  Light, Years, Tights

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.239, The Overlook Press

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• The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations.

  Mervyn Peake

  Moon, Generations, Earth

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• Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it s Outer Walls.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Taken, Mean

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.12, The Overlook Press

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• Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild birds in her breast climbed to her throat and gathered songless, hovering, all tumult, wing to wing, so ardent for those climes where all things end.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wings, Rose, Bird

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.362, The Overlook Press

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• Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.

  Mervyn Peake

  Noon, Silent, Thunder

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Gormenghast”, p.148, The Overlook Press

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• I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.

  Mervyn Peake

  Home, Boys, Smell

  Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.67, The Overlook Press

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• Oh how I hate people!

  Mervyn Peake

  Hate, People, I Hate People

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.45, The Overlook Press

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• And there shall be a flame-green daybreak soon. And love itself will cry for insurrection! For tomorrow is also a day - and Titus has entered his stronghold.

  Mervyn Peake

  Flames, And Love, Green

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.408, The Overlook Press

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• He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He had grown up. What a boy had set out to seek a man had found, found by the act of living.

  Mervyn Peake

  Home, Boys, Men

  Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.268, The Overlook Press

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• [Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

  Mervyn Peake

  Dream, Book, Giving

  Mervyn Peake (2011). “The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy”, Random House

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• It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible

  Mervyn Peake

  Sacred, Certain, Ceremony

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.236, The Overlook Press

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• Something to remember, that: cats for missiles.

  Mervyn Peake

  Cat, Remember, Missiles

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.303, The Overlook Press

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• For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.

  Mervyn Peake

  Book, Use, Nests

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.324, The Overlook Press

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• Cold love’s the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.

  Mervyn Peake

  Cold, Empty, Clear

  Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.57, The Overlook Press

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